Year 12 students, staff and parents of Corryong College are celebrating following the release of the 2023 Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) results on Monday.
The exceptional results were highlighted by Nicola Costello attaining an ATAR of 95.95 which saw her awarded the Rotary Club’s Dux of the College.
Ada Drummond has been awarded the Upper Murray CWA Group Dux Secundus with an ATAR of 92.3 and Julia Hoffmann received the Cudgewa CWA award with an ATAR of 91.1.
Also performing at a high level was Amy Greenhill, the Corryong Lions Club award recipient with an ATAR of 89.85.
An avid reader, Nicola’s highest VCE score was in English and she was also pleasantly surprised with her maths result. She also excelled in two of her favourite subjects Indonesian and Health & Human Development.
Nicola’s advice to future VCE students is “Do what you enjoy.
“I didn’t want to put too much pressure on myself by taking higher scaling subjects that I wasn’t really interested in, just for the sake of it.”
Nicola now plans to take a ‘gap year’ to go travelling in South East Asia and Europe before settling back into academic life.
She is considering undertaking a Bachelor of Arts in Melbourne or Canberra, specialising in international relations or climate change and social justice.
The VCE class of 2023 had a 100 per cent pass rate and the cohort achieved an ATAR score of above 70, which places them in the top 30 per cent of all students in Victoria. Within this pool, 77 per cent of students achieved an ATAR score above 80, which places them in the top 19 per cent of all students in Victoria.
The crowning achievement was that 33 per cent of the students scored an ATAR above 90, which places them in the top 10 per cent of the state, contributing to the college’s average ATAR of 87.
“We are thrilled that Corryong College is one of the higher performing schools in the region with a study score mean of 34.04,” said VCE co- ordinator, Xanthe Knott.
The Year 12 Victorian Certificate Education Vocational Major (VCE VM) class of 2023 also had a 100 per cent pass rate.
Hayley Tregilgas was awarded the VCE VM Excellence Award for exceptional results in completing VCE VM.
Matthew Stewart has been awarded the Damm’s Auto & Diesel Repairs Outstanding VM Achievement Award and Jack Daly received the Cudgewa CWA’s Chloris Kohlman VET Award.
Zara Worldron was the receipient of the Corryong Neighbourhood Centre School Community Award.
“Thank you to every student, parent, and staff of Corryong College for their dedication and support in achieving this significant milestone,” said VCE VM co-ordinator, Sarah Harris “We cannot be more proud of all of our Year 12 students!”
This article appeared in the Corryong Courier, 14 December 2023.
